TRANSPORT

Tanzania's SGR Contractor Yapi Merkezi Under Pressure as Government Takes Control of Construction Spending

Tanzania says it has paid Turkish contractor Yapi Merkezi for construction of its delayed Standard G...

Nov 8 15 min

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Dar es Salaam Grew More Than 100 Times, but Its Infrastructure Never Kept Pace

Dar es Salaam has grown from approximately 69,000 residents in 1948 to an urban area exceeding eight...

Nov 7 19 min

LOGISTIC SYSTEMS

Tanzania Secures $1.2 Billion for Tabora to Kigoma SGR With AfDB's Largest Credit Guarantee

Tanzania has signed a $1.2 billion commercial financing facility for the Tabora to Kigoma Standard G...

Nov 5 16 min

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Kenya Plans Up to KSh 200 Billion 60km Elevated Expressway From Nairobi to Thika, Groundbreaking Expected Within Two Months

Kenya is advancing a 60 kilometre elevated expressway from Museum Hill in Nairobi to Thika at a prel...

Oct 31 14 min

TRANSPORT

Kenya vs Tanzania: The Railway Race to Move East Africa’s Trade

Kenya has a stronger, established SGR freight business. Tanzania is expanding an electric railway an...

Sep 12 16 min

HOUSING PROJECTS

Tanzania’s 14.3 Million Buildings Expose the Hard Part of Vision 2050

The Tanzania Building Census 2022 counted 14,348,372 buildings across the country. Of these, 13,9...

Sep 9 10 min

PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project: A Century of Ambition and Tanzania’s Next Economic Test

The Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project, 2,115 MW across nine turbines on the Rufiji River, traces bac...

Aug 20 10 min

REAL ESTATE MARKET

Dar es Salaam's Apartment Boom Is Ending. The Signs Are Already In The Data.

The Evergrande saga I wrote about earlier is not a Chinese anomaly. It is a particularly loud thunde...

Aug 4 10 min

HOUSING PROJECTS

70 Million People Today, 129 Million by 2050: Tanzania’s Housing Pressure Is Building

The 2022 Population and Housing Census placed Tanzania’s population at 61.74 million people, livin...

Jul 21 9 min

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

In Tanzania, a Paved Road Is Still a Luxury. That Is the Most Expensive Planning Failure Nobody Talks About.

Ask anyone searching for a house in Dar es Salaam what the first question is. It is not how many bed...

Jul 16 20 min

REAL ESTATE MARKET

The Masaki Paradox: Why a Small Plot in Dar es Salaam Costs More Than an Acre in Texas

In 2026, prime land in Masaki trades at USD 1,400 to USD 2,655 per square metre. A four-bedroom hous...

Jul 3 10 min

TRANSPORT

Tanzania’s Airport Construction Boom. The Air Gateways Taking Shape Across the Country

Tanzania is building far more than airports. It is building the infrastructure needed for a larger, ...

Jun 26 5 min